Visual ScepticismERC Advanced Grant

Winona Pawelzik presents her paper "Utopian Histories and the Ethnological Museum: Photography as a Tool of Decolonization in Emeka Ogboh’s Work 'At the Threshold' (2021) at GRASSI, Leipzig“ as part of the The Developing Room's Ninth Graduate Student Colloquium "The Futures of Photography" at the Center for Cultural...

Congratulations to Dr. Johanna Spanke – her book "Photomurals: Fotografische Wandbilder in transnationalen Aushandlungsprozessen zwischen Mexiko und den USA" has been nominated for the Deutsche Fotobuchpreis (German Photobook Prize) in the category of photo theory. We are keeping our fingers crossed for the award ceremony...

Our conference "Difficult Heritage and 'Nature': Greening as Forgetting - Greening as Healing?" took place from 19 to 21 September 2024 at the Warburg-Haus in Hamburg. Divided into three panels, a wide range of presentations discussed the role of nature in the approach to "Difficult Heritage" in the period after the Second...

Johanna Spanke presents her paper “Monuments in Motion: Decolonising memory in the exhibition space” at the Memory Studies Association 8th Annual Conference “Memories in Transit” at Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú in Lima, Peru. Date: 2024, July 18−20

Further information about the conference can be found here. 

Fellow at the ERC-project in September 2024:

Prof. Dr. Carolina Vanegas Carrasco
Universidad Nacional de San Martín (UNSAM), Buenos Aires

Carla Guimarães Hermann presents the paper “Monumentalization of transatlantic memories of slavery: examples from Rio de Janeiro and Lisbon” at the 36th CIHA World Congress of the International Committee of the History of Arts “Matter Materiality” (23-28 June, 2024), in Lyon.

Date: 24 June 2024 (Patrimonializations 2/3...